Accuracy of radar-AMeDAS precipitation

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E79-B, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 751-759

  Makihara, Yasutaka ^a   Uekiyq, Naotaka ^a   Tabata, Akira ^b   Abe, Yoshiyuki ^b  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b Meteorological Agency   (Japan)

Author keywords

AMeDAS; Appearance rate; Calibration; Radar precipitation; Radar AMeDAS precipitation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA ACQUISITION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

APPEARANCE RATE; AUTOMATED METEOROLOGICAL DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM; RADAR PRECIPITATION;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 0030168818     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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